PIERS SECUNDA British artist Piers Secunda works essentially with paint in its primary form, Secunda’s practice takes the materiality of his medium back to its fundamental properties – creating three-dimensional paint sculptures where the medium itself and its structures and surface become the subject. Piers Secunda's paint constructions spill into the exhibition space, gushing from their support in an explosion of paint. A release from the flat surface and the embrace of paint in a physical form, provide the letters of a painting vocabulary. The scrawl of spray paint, gestural marks, and the gloss surfaces of commercial paint products, point towards the intersection of fascinations. These hinge on the relation-ship between form and function. The overall effect takes advantage of the relational nature of colour, and the nature of paintings object hood, to look at the conflict between art as an autonomous medium, and art in relation to life.


PIERS SECUNDA
Vertical Collage Series 4 no. 1
34x34x18 cm
2006
Industrial floor paint & household paints

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Relief Collage 4
63x63x16 cm
2004
Industrial floor paint & household paint

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Vertical Collage Series 1 no. 2
78x84x28 cm
2004
Industrial floor paint & household paints mounted on MDF

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Vertical Collage Series 4 no. 4
44x52x22cm
2006
Industrial floor paint & household paints

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Vertical Collage Series 2 no. 2
70x58x19 cm
Industrial floor paint & household paints mounted on MDF

 

 

 

  


PIERS SECUNDA
White Manifesto
30x30x30 in
Custom Manufactured Acrylic
2001-2003

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Vertical Collage Series 6 no. 3
122x160x24 cm
Industrial floor paint & household paint
2007

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Combinations no. 3
74x86x19cm
Industrial floor paint & household paints
2008

 

 

 


PIERS SECUNDA
Collective nr 1
62x43x16 cm
Industrial floor paint & household paints
2008